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Hello my name is john and im a newbie. I am taking Solaris in school, unix and i need a help on writing a shell script that outputs the name of the shell that is executing it...
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#!/bin/bash
echo "*** Method # 1"
echo "My shell info: "
ps -p $$

echo "*** Method # 2"
echo "My shell is $(echo $SHELL)"
How do I find out what shell I’m using?
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